Brick wall construction



May 27, 1941. c. s. BROWN BRICK WALL CONSTRUCTION Filed Dec. 20, 1938 a a 1 M 1 3 ATTORNEYS.

Patented May 27, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BRICK WALL CONSTRUCTION Charles S. Brown, Syracuse, N. Y.

Application December 20, 1938, Serial No. 246,867

2 Claims.

This invention relates to building blocks or bricks and has for its object bricks which may be laid into wall formation to simulate a brick wall laid in the ordinary manner, but with a minimum of labor and skill. More specifically, it has for its object a brick provided with recesses in its upper and lower faces, and also opening through its rear face for receiving a backing of plastic material which flows into the recesses when being poured, when the bricks of the tiers are laid fiatw'lse directly on the bricks of the underlying tier in alternating relation thereto, so that when the plastic sets, it looks the bricks in position. It also has for its object a corner brick formed with recesses so arranged as to be complemental with the recesses of the bricks in the same tier and to aline with recesses of the bricks of adjacent tiers.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanyin drawing in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a wall embodying the bricks of this invention, the form of shoring used for forming the backing of cement, mortar, concrete or other plastic material being also shown.

Figure 2 is an isometric view, partly in section, of a wall embodying the invention.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on line 33, Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a plan view of one of the corner bricks.

I designates the regular or intermediate bricks of the wall, and 2 the corner bricks. Each of the bricks l is formed with recesses 3, 4 in its upper and lower faces, the recesses opening through the rear side of the brick and terminating short of the outer side of the brick, the recesses 3 being located centrally of the brick, and the recesses 4 at the ends of the brick and also opening through the end faces of the brick. The recesses 4 are substantially one-half of the recesses 3. When the bricks are laid in wall formation, the bricks of one tier rest directly on the bricks of the next lower tier, and the recesses 3 are alined with the matched recesses 4 of the bricks of the next lower or upper tier, while the recesses 4 are alined with the recesses 3 of the bricks of the next lower or upper tier. The corner brick 2 (Figures 2 and 4) is formed with a recess 4 and also with a recess 30, angular in shape, and

shaped to match with the recess 4 of the brick l abutting against the side thereof at the corner, and to also match or aline with a similar recess 30 of the underlying or overlying corner brick.

The outer or front faces 5 of the bricks are formed with rabbets 6 to simulate raked-out joints. The rabbets 5 are preferably along the upper edge and one end only of each intermediate brick or the bricks are to be laid in the wall, so that the rabbet is formed in the upper margin of the outer face. The reason for this is that when the mortar or plastic material is poured, some of the mortar or the less thick portion of mortar leaks out between the bricks and into the rabbets, so that when the finished wall is washed off. the residue of mortar in the rabbets appears to be a joint simulating that of the joints in a brick wall.

The intermediate bricks have only one outer face, while the corner brick has an outer lengthwise face and an outer end face. The rabbets 6 are formed entirely in one brick and not partly in one brick and partly in the adjacent brick. Therefore, the end bricks are made right and left, and in one layer or tier, a right hand corner brick is used, while in the tiers above and below it, left hand bricks are used.

In Figures 1 and 4, left and right hand corner bricks are shown respectively, the distinction being arbitrarily made herein by the fact that in the left hand brick, the end face formed with the rabbet is at the left end, and in Figure 4, the end face formed with the rabbet is at the right end of the brick.

After a predetermined number of layers of bricks have been laid, the plastic material is poured between the shoring S and the rear side of the wall and flows into the recesses 3, 4, and when set, firmly locks the bricks together. During the pouring or during the laying of the bricks, the wall may be reinforced by a suitable shoring, not shown.

In any form of the invention, the bricks of each tier abut directly against each other and rest directly on the bricks of the next lower tier, and are formed to have recesses on their inner sides for receiving the plastic material when poured, which firmly binds the bricks together in a unitary structure.

What I claim is:

1. A brick for wall structures having recesses in its upper and lower faces opening through the rear side of the brick and terminating short of the front side of the brick, one of the recesses in the upper and lower side of each brick extendterminating short of the front side of the brick and also terminating short of its ends, the brick having additional recesses in its upper and lower faces opening through at least one end face of the brick and also through the upper and lower faces of the brick and the rear side of the brick.

CHARLES S. BRO'WN. 

